Who are your 5 favorite female sitcom characters of all time?

I will stop and construct a poll when we have 50 nominees with more than one submission, the max size for a poll.

mmm

Let’s not be hasty, I can be as shallow-minded as the next guy if called for. I just took a different tact here.

Now, start a thread for for sexy cartoon characters and I’m all over it!

So many female characters, so little time…. :pensive_face:

  1. Nancy Botwin (Weeds)

I’ll think of some others, but had to put Nancy in there.

Lucille Bluth (Jessica Walter - Arrested Development)
Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman- Mary Tyler Moore)
Martha Brooks (Martha Kelly- Baskets)
Maria Bamford (Maria Bamford- Lady Dynamite)
Helen Tudor-Fisk (Kitty Flanagan- Fisk)

Yeah, but Wilma Flintstone? You’re fooling yourself.

She’ll never leave Fred and you know it.

Velma Dinkley, hands down! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Off set, they are very different people.

The only one I was interested in listing.

Will we get more top 5’s? I’m interested to see what the top 5 pets would be.

Morticia Adams
Lily Munster
Eleanor Shelstrop
Elaine Benes
Lucille Bluth

Ooh, forgot about Lilly!

Benes (pronounced Benesh, because an S with a diacritical mark called a hachek, š, is “sh”), is a very common Czech name, and I always assumed that’s what her name was.

There are a lot of letters Czech shares with English orthography, but pronounces differently, and some that are pronounced different ways depending on diacritical marks.

Immigrants often try to get people to use their original pronunciation, but their kids either capitulate to the way it looks, or change the way they spell it. You have cousins, one named Benes, and another named Benesh.

Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)

Elaine Benes (Seinfeld)

April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)

Lilith Sternin (Cheers)

Phoebe Buffay (Friends)

My teen nerd crush growing up (kinda still today).

To be fair I had more than one but she was in the mix.

What teenaged boy could resist her?

The President of Czechoslovakia during the Sudeten Crisis was named Beneš:

Edvard Beneš - Wikipedia

Betty Rubble.

Maw Maw (Raising Hope)

Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)

Bailey Quarters (WKRP)

Sue Sue Heck (The Middle)

Lisa Douglas (Green Acres)

Phoebe Buffay (Regina Phalanges)

Trina Vega (VicTORIous)

Nicole Bristow (Zoey 101)

Regine Hunter (Living Single)

Jeannie (Barbara Eden version)